From -7000463745880995527 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: f78e5,27db7830723eef11 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public From: jpotter@falcon.lhup.edu (John Potter) Subject: Re: STL Date: 2000/06/25 Message-ID: <3954f8cf.1877408@news.csrlink.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 638513878 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Approved: Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++ References: <8it0ed$ggu$1@news.netvision.net.il> <39527357.AF68E477@sensor.com> <8iuv3f$qrm$1@panix2.panix.com> <3953a402.28858861@news.csrlink.net> <8j0i6o$crh$1@news.ias.unu.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Mail2News-Path: news.demon.net!mulga.cs.mu.oz.au X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 961871681 mail2news:3918 mail2news mail2news.demon.co.uk X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 14:08:24 EDT X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU id EAA25676 Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ On Sun, 25 Jun 2000 01:20:53 CST, "Ney Andr=E9 de Mello Zunino" wrote: >=20 > "John Potter" wrote in message > news:3953a402.28858861@news.csrlink.net... > > > > Word games. STL is produced by SGI and it has > > hash_set/multiset/map/multimap. The C++ standard library does not. > > > > John >=20 > I am sorry, but it would be more precise to say that SGI provides an > implementation of the STL which is part of the C++ Standard Library. To= say > that the STL is produced by SGI is like transforming something which is > basically a set of specifications into a proprietary thing (and also to > ignore the existence of companies like Rogue Wave). You can create your= own > implementation of the STL, if you wish, provided you follow the > specifications. Valid except that neither STL nor Standard Template Library are words which appear in the C++ standard. Ron was playing word games. The SGI(from HP)STL contains hash containers. The C++ standard does not contain an STL or hash containers. The real question was why does the C++ standard library not contain hash containers and was answered quite well. John --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://reality.sgi.com/austern_mti/std-c++/faq.html ]